Improvement in doors tor fire-place stoves



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WILLIA Woon oF BALTIMORE, MARYL D.

Letters Patent No. 98,003, dated December 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT m noons I'OR FIRE-PLACE s'rovns.

The Schedule referred to in theseI-etters Patent andmaking part of the same I, WIhLIAM E. WOOD, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in' the Fire-Place Stove, of

which the following is a specification;

Natal/re and Objects of t ltcIn ven t io'n.

capacious opening, provided for the purpose, through the front of said stov'e so that the said coverings can either ,be lifted off or removed, as if in one piece, so as to aii'orda large fire-exposure; or portions only of said coverings be detached and removed with facility,

so as to afford smaller .fireeexposnres, as may be desirable, the object of my invention ,being to afford either a close crap" '5 open fire of greater or lesser area, as may be desired, without presenting thereby the unsightly and objectionable swinging doors heretofore required.

Description of the AccompanyingDrawings.

--Figure 1 is a p'erspective front view of the. upper part of. the bodyof a fire-place stove, with the reits detachable doors or windows applied -theretof j Figure 2 is a perspective frontview of the said part of i the body, without the removable frame and its doors or windows; e

Figure '3 is 'an enlarged perspective front view of the said removable'frame, detached from the said upper part of the body of the stove; x

Figure4shows perspective front views of the detachabledoors or windows of the said frame, detached and separated from each other; and

Figure 5, perspective rear views of the. same doors or windows, shown in figs. 1 and 4.

General Description. h I The capacious openingdb (see fig. 2) is made through then-out of the upper part. A B'of the stove, at a point just above the proper or intended upper surface line of the incandescent fuel, and of such width and height as will afford an ample or full view of the latter.

The frame 0 D (see fig. 3) has a corresponding interior space,-c' (Z', and fits closely around against the front surface of the boundary edges of the opening a b, and is supported in this position by its projecting b, as shown in fig. 1.

The open space c'd, of the frame 0 I), is fitted with three separate detachable frames, E F F, 7 having either transparent or opaque pannels, e'fff", and covering the whole of the said open space, the end frames F F being each supported by respective lugs 4 4,and the lower ends of projecting side-pieces, 5 5, resting upon the lower boundary of the open space 0' d.

The middle frame E is supported in the same man,- ner by lugs 6 6, over the middle of the opening, its two sides lapping upon the projecting side-pieces 5 5 of the respective frames 'F 1 and its upper end secured by means of a rotating lever-catch, 7, so that the said frame can be readily detached and removed from the large frame 0 D, and thus afford a central opening into the fire-chamber, and at the same time allow the end frames F F to he also detached when a larger opening is desired, and so also that the whole of the frames E F F, together with the larger containing-frame O D,-may be removed, and thus leave lugs c" d" resting in respective notched projections, a

a capacious open space, a, b, or open fire, uninc'umbered by the attached swinging doors heretofore used.

I claim, as my inventioni The combination of the front opening a. b and the detachable or removable coverings O I) E F F, with a fire-place stove, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth. WILLIAM E. WOOD.

Witnesses FRANKLIN W 001),

E. M. Bosnnv. 

